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F. MESKER 8u H. I', EDWARDS. PLATE METAL COLUMN.

tllllllIl-IIIIIIIR UNITED STATES PATENT @ENCEE FRANK MESKER AND HENRY l VEDlVARDS, OhA` S". LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNGRS T() MESKER th BROTHER., OF SAME PLACE.

PLTEMETAL. COLUMN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 899,202, dated March 5, 1889.

Application filed November 2.7, 1888. Serial No. 292,008. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern:

'Be it known that We, FRANK MEsKER and HENRY F. EDWARDS, of St. Louis, Missouri, jointly have made a nenr and useful Improvement in Plate-Metal Columns, of which 'the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The improvement rela-tes to that type et' plate-1netal columns which is employed in architectural Work such as building-frontsand composed mainly of plates or plates and angle-irons riveted together, and usually having ornamental attachments upon the front of the column.

The improvement consists in the special shape and combination ot the part-s ooinposing the column, and in the means `for stilli'ening the column and applyin the attachments, substantially as is hereinafter sot forth and claimed, aided hy the annexed drawings, niaky ing part ot' this specification, in whieh- Figure l is a view in perspective of the iniproved coluinn; Fig. 2, a vertical section ol.' the column on the line 2 Q of Fig. 3, which, in turn, is a horizontal section et' the column; Fig. .4, a vertical section on the line l flol? Fig. 3, looking toward ille :front of the column; and lf`ig. 5, a vertical section on the line -l -l of Fig. il, looking toward the rear oli the Column. 1lhe last three views are upon an enlarged scale.

The saine letters oli' reference denote the same parts.

The improved unornamented eolinnn isi composed mainly ot three plaies, two anglelrons, and two tpiarter-turn curved angleirons, combined as follows:

A represents a flat plate, which forms the front ot' the Column.

B ll are liat platos lforniing the sides, rospeetively, of the eolunin.

(f C represent angledrons atlaehed, respectively, to the sides l B at the rear edge and upon the innerslde thereof, suhstantially as shown.

D D represent the curved angle-irons. They are arranged, respectively, at the front corners of the column.v The trout plate, A, when in position, is not between the side plates or against the front edges thereof, but is spaced l apart from the side plates, and it stands in front of them, substantially as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and itis held in place and united to the sides B B hy means of the curved angle-irons, which are applied so that the edge d of the curved angle-iron laps upon the outer faee ot' the Front plate, and is riveted to the 'front plate, and the edge d of the curved angle-iron laps upon the outer faee of the side plate, and is riveted to the side plate. By this means the column at its front corners is both strengthened and oruaniented. Another feature ot the eoluinn is the means for stiffening it. E represents a flanged plate arranged horizontally Within the column and adapted to tit and to he alitaehed lo the united side and frontplatos. lt is attached to the plates A B B hy means of the rivets e, which pass through the flange fr. el the plate E and through the ahnt-ling plate A ll ll', as shown.

To avoid the lastonings used in attaching l the curved angle-irons, and also to make rooin For the angle-irons at the hack oi the. column, the plate E is scalloped at its corners el, sul)- slantiall as shown. The portion e3 is pret'- erahly made to come between the angle-irons C,as shown. The plate isprolfciahlymade open at its conter, el, to lighten it. The plates E are introdufved Linto the column at various levels, as indicated in Fig. Q. They serve as a means for unitingI the front and side plates, A l5 yl', irrespective of the curved angle-irons l) D; hut they are of espeeial Value, in oonl juilelion therewith, in uniting the plates and in strengthening the column.

F G represent ornamental attachments applied tothe column-front. They are fastened thereto hy means of the screws or rivets f, which pass through the attachment, and in the case of serews tapped into the columnlront, and in the case ol rivets passed through hoth attachment and front. Then opposite the plates E, the saine rivets used to unite the plate E andV column-front may he extended to include the attachment.

Te elainil l. The Combination of the front plate, the side plates, the angle-irons at the rear of the column, and the curved angleirons at the ICG front corners oi' the Column, the front plate curved angle-irons, the angle-irons at the back being spaced apart from the side plates, subof the column, and the attachments upon the stantially as described. front of the column, substantially as de- 2. The combination of the front plate, the scribed. 5 side plates, the angle-irons at the back and Witness our hands.

the curved angle-irons at the front of the eol- I FRANK MESKER. umn, and the horizontal stiFfening-plates, HENRY F. EDWARDS. substantially as described. Witnesses:

The combination of the front plate, the C. D. MOODY, A Io side plates, the anged stiffening-plates, the D. W. C. SANFORD. 

